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Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying, at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, that Americans had adopted "a Republic, if you can keep it." It took almost 230 years, but we are doing our best to throw our Republic away. In November 2016, America might
Abortion
To the surprise of no one who has paid any attention to the litigation, the post-Scalia Supreme Court this week resolved the challenges brought by religious groups to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate without issuing a sweeping decision one way or the other. Instead, the Supreme Court's decision
fossil fuel
I thought my capacity for shock at judicial activism was exhausted, but an April 8 decision by a federal judge to allow a group of children to sue the federal government to stop climate change literally caused me to burst out laughing. The Left, of course, is giddy. Plaintiffs'
congress
We should all be so lucky to live the life that Antonin Scalia did. When Justice Scalia passed away in his sleep this weekend, he left behind a loving wife, nine children, and 28 grandchildren. He left behind numerous friends: with a ready wit and a garrulous laugh, he was
terrorism
In the early morning hours of March 13, 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was raped and stabbed to death mere steps away from her apartment building in New York City. The case is famous because her cries for help were heard by many of her neighbors, who did little
trump
A businessman/reality television star and a doctor each lacking any government leadership experience, and two first-term senators who come election day will both be only 45-years-old. About one month before voting starts in Iowa and New Hampshire, these are your front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination. Together, these four
Supreme Court
The past two weeks have seen rock stars and movie stars dropping like flies. Since January 10, we have lost David Bowie at age 69, Alan Rickman at age 69, and Glen Frey at age 67. I mention their ages because advances in healthcare and lengthening average lifespans should not
Catholic
The First Amendment famously guards against a government "establishment of religion," while simultaneously protecting "the free exercise thereof." But it says nothing about private religious biases, which are widespread and play an interesting political role in modern America. Anti-Muslim bias, and anti-anti-Muslim bias, have been all